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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    June 2, 2006 Friday 03:46 PM EST

    ARABC should give fresh impetus to Russo-Armenian contacts - pres

    by Lyudmila Yermakova


    The Association of Russian-Armenian Business Cooperation (ARABC) is
    aimed at the development of strategic partnership between the two
    states, said speakers at the Association's annual meeting that took
    place at Moscow-based President-Hotel.

    The Association created two years ago already has missions in 58
    Russian regions and eight branches in former Soviet republics and
    foreign countries, including Armenia, Germany, Ukraine, Cyprus, and
    the United States. One more branch will be opened in Belarus shortly.

    ``The activity of the Association promotes the development of
    strategic partnership and presents a new kind of business relations
    between regions,'' Federation Council Deputy Speaker Alexander
    Torshin said in a greeting message to the Association on behalf of
    the upper house of the Russian parliament.

    The message expressed hope that the historical potential of
    friendship and cooperation between the two peoples will be ``enlarged
    manifold.''

    Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Local
    Self-Government Levon Chakhmanchyan, who is also head of the
    All-Russia non-governmental movement ``For Self-Government of Working
    People'', was elected as the ARABC president.

    ``Our task is to give a new boost to the development of multilateral
    contacts in various spheres at the modern level,'' Chakhmanchyan told
    Itar-Tass.

    The association, created with the assistance of Russian and Armenian
    public, politicians and businessmen, ``must do things, which are in
    great demand in Armenia and Russia,'' he said.

    Members of the association have already offered a number of very
    interesting projects based on new technologies, which is necessary in
    construction and processing industries.

    At present, ARABC efforts are focused, in particular, on the
    restoration of regular railway traffic between Moscow and Yerevan,
    Chakhmanchyan said.
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